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Facebook said Monday it had blocked some 30 accounts on its platform and 85 accounts on photo-sharing social network Instagram over concerns they may be linked to foreign entities and aimed at interfering in US midterm elections.

MIT scientists have developed a method to mass produce robots no bigger than a cell that could be used to monitor conditions inside an oil or gas pipeline, or to search out disease while floating through the bloodstream.

Salty pools of water under the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life, according to a study which contradicts existing views on the red planet's potential habitability.

Three scientists on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize, including the first woman in 55 years, for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery, the jury said.

Data of 50 million Facebook users have been exposed following a massive security breach by unknown hackers, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, amid fears that a significant number of the accounts affected could be from India.

Scientists have discovered an ancient fossil of the earliest animal on geological record -- a strange oval creature with rib like segments running along its body that lived on Earth 558 million years ago.

By 2025, more than half of all workplace tasks that exist today will be performed by machines, yet in terms of overall numbers, the robot revolution will create 58 million net new jobs in the next five years, says a study.

NASA launched its Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, known as ICESat-2, which will use an extremely precise laser to collect measurement data to track the Earth's shrinking polar ice, on Saturday (September 15) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

ISRO lays down the road map to realise PM Modi's promise to send an Indian into space; 3 Astronauts will be in space for 5 to 7 days; Entire project to cost less than Rupees ten thousand crores; Mission to be accomplished in 40 months.

Our planet is at the risk of entering an irreversible 'hothouse' condition - where the global temperatures will rise by four to five degrees and sea levels may surge by up to 60 metres higher than today - even if targets under the Paris climate deal are met, a study has warned.

NASA is preparing to send a probe closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ventured, enduring wicked heat while zooming through the solar corona to study this outermost part of the stellar atmosphere that gives rise to the solar wind.